RARS
RARS (Robot Auto Racing Simulator) according to
it's "main" web site (www.ebc.ee/~mremm/rars/rars.htm)
is:
| a computer programming contest where
everyone with little knowledge of programming and strong
interest of racing can participate. The latter is even more
important. Your task is to make a program that drives a car
around in closed racing track. |
Why Use RARS?
We're using RARS for a demo because it hides all the nasty physics
and graphics details from us. All we have to do is write a
"robot", compile and we're done.
Changes To RARS
We made a few changes to RARS to help with this tutorial. The following
is a list of the changes:
- Added a "Pause" menu. This allows you to pause RARS,
examine what's going on in Spark!, make changes if needed, and continue
running RARS
- Made SparkTutorial01 the first robot. This allows you to run RARS
with just one car racing and it'll be SparkTutorial01
- Colored track - we alternate between gray and white for the color of
different sections of track. Since the robots get most of their
information in terms of track sections, this helps in debugging.
How To Build A Robot
While you will not have to code a robot for this tutorial, having a
knowledge of robot building will be helpful.
The RARS tutorials presented here are by Mitchell Timin. Any and all
credit must go to him. Only slight changes were made by us to correct some
spelling and add hyperlinks between tutorials.
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